Private campsites & glamping in Big Indian, NY

Big Indian is barely a hamlet — a crossroads in the central Catskills where Route 28 bends toward the high peaks — and that's the appeal. Slide Mountain, the Catskills' highest at 4,180 feet, rises a few miles east; the Esopus Creek runs cold and clear alongside the road; Belleayre Mountain's slopes are ten minutes away. This is the deep Catskills, where the night sky does the entertaining.

The stay that put it on the map is a design-driven lodge and resort on Alpine Road: cabins and rooms scattered across mountain acreage, with the kind of considered-rustic interiors that made the brand famous in Brooklyn first. It's forty minutes from Phoenicia's tubing and main street, two and a half hours from the city, and the closest thing the central Catskills have to a flagship.

1 stays in Big Indian